Taiwan Designer's Week Kicks Off with Black-and-White Exploration

By MOOK Travel Life Network Editorial Team
 

Taiwan’s annual design extravaganza, “Taiwan Designer's Week,” enters its ninth year. In 2015, it returns from October 2 to 11 at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei, with the theme “EXPLORATION.” The event extends design works into everyday life, sparking endless imagination. This year’s scale surpasses previous editions, featuring over 200 designers and 66 design-related brands, making it highly anticipated.

Taiwan Designer's Week (TWDW) is a design event initiated by grassroots forces. Since 2007, the first edition, “Let’s Talk,” organized by a group of industrial designers, gathered participation from over 200 designers. Through various themes, it created opportunities for dialogue between designers and the general public, as well as between industries and designers, attracting around 50,000 attendees. Over the following eight years, Taiwan Designer's Week was held annually at venues such as Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Expo Park’s Flower Expo Dome, and Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei. In addition to showcasing the diverse facets of Taiwanese design through thematic exhibitions, the event continuously united design talent across various fields in Taiwan. With activities including design forums, designer shop collaborations, open studios, design markets, design film screenings, and more, Taiwan Designer's Week has become a platform for sharing and exchanging design ideas.

This year, in addition to featuring over 60% new exhibitors, the event has organized as many as 11 special activities, including the main theme exhibition, Design Star Power, Design Industry Image Exhibition, forums, thematic joint exhibitions, design matchmaking sessions, and Design Strolls. These offerings allow all visitors to explore the best of Taiwanese design from multiple perspectives.